Show NEVADA columbia review the first installment of machinery for the lida queen mill at palmetto is expected to arrive the latter part of the week and a large force of men will be on hand to commence putting it in place the grading is nearly completed and if nothing un forseen happens the management expects to have the mill in running order within the next sixty days eureka sentinel john williams of hot creek was in eureka monday for a load of supplies he is engaged in fitting up a 16 animal team and will shortly commence hauling ore from the rattlesnake mine located about twelve miles south of hot creek to eureka for shipment to the salt lake smelters shelters sm elters the rattlesnake mine lies about miles south of eureka las vegas age the superintendent of the gold butte property the group owned by prominent salt lake investors has sent work to the salt lake offices that he has encountered a fissure in the tunnel at a distance of feet a development that was not looked for at this point it is not known what values this ore will carry but this question will be determined within the next few days as several samples are now en route to salt lake ely news very encouraging developments have been made in the cumberland ely mine within the past week the sappers working under the direction of general manager george E gunn have developed into what appears to be a very large body of copper ore at a depth of feet which is almost identical in character with the ore body in the ruth mr gunn himself while much pleased with the outlook will make no predictions until further work has been done mina miner joseph sauve who is prospecting for himself and adams and miller of hawthorne in hawthorne district has uncovered a ledge of silver ore which assays essays total value per ton of mr sauve says he has lots of this kind of rock and it looks like the strike would be an important one the ground is new and has never been worked on before and although in an old district is a new find and proves that thorough prospecting will develop much for our esmeralda mining districts the hawthorne district has been worked mostly for free gold but contains lead and silver as well columbia review clyde heller a prominent capitalist of philadelphia and senator T L oddle oddie the well known local capitalist and mining man last week closed a deal whereby they secured a portion of the ground held by stone and kalfus on the mohawk the block secured by these gen tamen lies between the kalfus and stone and kalfus just south of the mcnaughton leases and is feet the ground was taken over as a sublease sub lease and it is understood that a good round sum was paid for the small territory the location of the lease is considered ideal and is practically surrounded by shippers the new owners intend losing no time in opening up the property two windlasses wind lasses are being operated in sinking reno gazette A J pritchett of reno and L R smith a mining man of salt lake city returned to reno in an auto this morning from ramsey where they have been inspecting some properties for the past few days they report much activity in the new mining camp and sa say that it will one day be one of the leading mining districts of the state in speaking of the new mining district this morning mr pritchett said the camp will surely prove to be a wonder the ramsey comstock owned by mayne co of goldfield is the greatest mine in the district at the present time mr mayne took us over his claim called the big dyke and made bannings pann ings of the whole dyke and in every pan we could see gold with the naked eye the rock also showed free gold and runs from 10 to per ton this ore is free milling and there is a large quantity of it in sight A bullfrog dispatch says the big mill which charles M schwab is preparing to erect in the bullfrog district nevada will be able to make a saving of at least 95 per cent of assay values on the ores of that district according to the report of the mont gomery shoshones expert who has just completed exhaustive tests of the ores at several of the best mills in the country the process decided upon by the company is amalgamation concentration and cyaniding cyan iding after crushing by rolls ore assaying a ton it is estimated should pay a net return of 92 allowing 3 a ton for milling and 25 ore it is figured should yield 2075 net the mill will be located on the side of the hill between the shoshone and polaris shafts it will be running with tons capacity by january 1 its capacity when fully operating will be tons a day A charge of 5 a ton has been decided upon by the company for milling custom ores rhyolite miner the gold bar has broken into ore better than ever before uncovered in this well known property superintendent dedford bedford says it is the richest body yet found on the gold dar bar he was in from the mine wednesday and while he is just back from an extended eastern trip and has not been at the property long enough to give details he stated to a miner representative that the present uncovering is the richest yet made at the mine the rich material was discovered at two points in the mine it shows at the and at the foot levels at the the rich lense shows on the hanging wall of the vein but at the foot level it has swung to the center of the main ore body abdy and carries the th same high grade values it is a milling and extremely rich mr bedford says to judge from appearance no assay tests have been made there will be renewed activity at the gold bar superintendent bedford was in rhyolite wednesday looking for additional men and he stated that it is i his purpose to greatly increase development at the property |